Omaha daily bee., 1887-11-21

the freedom Of the pantry and took tho
| cake. .'. 80
a "roast pig one hundred years old
| served on q platter" was ono oil the
| dainty toothsomes served at church
sociable in Norfolk last week. The
| church oyster seems to have lost its
winsome smile and lustrous charms fur
relic hunters.
| Tho Fremont Herald believes that
Sparks was two-thirds right in his con,
trovcrsy with Lamar. The Official
whom tho republican machine and
| boodlors are so anxious to get out, must
have a good deal of merit Us well rs
honesty and grit"
| Nebraska City affects surprise at the
finding of fossil in the city few feet
from the surface. With large herds
running loose on the surface, it was an
| inexcusable waste of labor to dig for
| them. The find is a good pointer to the
rising generation to plant them deep.
The state officials made an examina-
| tion of the work already done on tho
Soldiers home building i'll Grand Is
land last week, and expressed them
selves satisfied. The brick work has
reached the second story and the con-
tractor expects to have the building en-
closed by January 10.
The Nebraska City News figures out
u directory population of l0.5OO by the
multiple 81, and tells "a whopping un-
| truth in saying that Omaha uses AZ for
the same purpose. Omaha's directory
contains over 80 900 names, and the null
tiple three will give the city's popula-
tion without exaggeration.
The Lincoln Democrat soberly de-
clares that 1.-The democratic party must
cease to be the advocate and friend of
whisky or it will forever be in the
minority in the northwest" This is the
cruelest edict yet issued by the capital
oracle and will produce chorus OF
Kisses from the hoopsnakes OF the party.
The family washtub occasionally gets
in n lick ut the domestic circle. Though
not as energetic rs gasoline and the
shotgun, it never misses fire when loaded
| with hot water. Near Broken Bow last
week the little daughter of John Sauer
tumbled in with family washing and
joined the choir of lnnocents sacrificed
by carelessness.
A distressing accident happened at
South Sioux City Il few days ago. The
three-year-old boy of Mr.. Steele rushed
out to greet papa" and attempted to
climb over the wheel into tho wagon
where his father sat. The team moved
and the child was caught and crushed
between the wheel and the standard.
Death was instantaneous.
The Falls City Journal mournfully
says: 'It is a pity that Church Howe is
so dead politically that the people will
never get chance at him again. 1t
would be beautiful spectacle to see the
tricked, traded and outraged public
jumping on Church Howe with heavy
nails in their boots" Pepoon is some
thing of grave digger himself, and his
soul is now filled with maddening
regrets that he helped to plant Howe
too deep for resurrection.
The O'Neill Free Press and its putrid
plates and piboX have been gathered up
and transported to some Wyoming town,
where the untainted air will for time
improve its circulation as bunko
steerer for bank. With immeasurable
mouth and an unlimited stock of lie
abilities, Doc Matthews will cut broad
swathe for a brief period among the
bull-punchers of the territory, unless
he chafes his chin on the small end OF u
revolving pepper box. O'Neill and
Holt county have good cause for q
hearty Thanksgiving.
The overwhelming defeat of the burn
barrister ticket in the Third district
provoked this from the Schuyler Guilt:
"When the political standing of the re-
publican party in the Third district gets
so low that the Omaha Republican out
fit and the Vanderbum-Ha Hawes-Thurs-
ton brigade runs it, it is time that the
people kicked it out. That judicial dis
trict has a heavy republican ajority,
but there are independent voters enough h
in it to see that the party is not used to
further the interests Of unprincipled
political rOgues."
Edward F.. Leprohon, the dashing
young blood of Nebraska City. who is
now cooling off and exercising himself
on the stone pile in the penitentiary,
writes confession that his sentence
is just and "a good warning to young
, men too anxious to obtain riches by un-
just means" Edward permitted his
talents to run to autographs on checks
and quiet raids on other mems bank ac-
counts. The past was loaded with warn
who follow his style will flash in the
dock and splutter in penitentiary stripes.
The young man of to-day who lives be-
yond his earnings is cultivating a
Mosher mattress with castiron uphols-
terry. Such is the irony of fate.
Iowa Items.
SigOurney has struck slight vein OF
natural gas.
| L no uduS VI buuuluc nave ucCiareu
war on the sparrows.
, There are thirteen miles of street
railway in Burlington.
The big bridge at Dubuque will be
dedicated November 80
, The order of Odd Fellows in the state
, comprises All lodges, with 22,500 mem
bers.
, The Burlington Hawkeye has de-
, | clared war on scarlet women, the
moral anarchists of the town.
The Davenport base ball association
, has been incorporated, with capital OF
5000. ''for the purpose of elevating
, base ball playing and making it respect.
!, | able and honorable"
5 Master Evans Holbrook, of Sioux City
has received a courteous note of thanks
| from Mrs Cleyeland in return for g